Bill Text: CA AB2243 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered

California Assembly Bill 2243 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Elections: voting rights guide: incarcerated persons.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 899, Statutes of 2014. [AB2243 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB2243-Chaptered.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 2243	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  899
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 14, 2014
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  APRIL 21, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Weber

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 2105.5 of the Elections Code, relating to
elections.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2243, Weber. Elections: voting rights guide: incarcerated
persons.
   Existing law provides that in order to be entitled to register to
vote a person must be a United States citizen, a resident of
California, 18 years of age, and not be incarcerated or on parole for
a felony conviction. Existing law also requires each county
probation department to either establish and maintain on the county
probation department's Internet Web site a hyperlink to the Secretary
of State's voting rights guide for incarcerated persons or post a
notice with the Internet Web site address that contains the Secretary
of State's voting rights guide for incarcerated persons in each
probation office where probationers are seen.
   This bill would require the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation to either establish and maintain on the department's
Internet Web site a hyperlink to the Internet Web site at which the
Secretary of State's voting rights guide for incarcerated persons may
be found or post in each parole office a notice that contains the
Internet Web site address at which the voting rights guide may be
found.



THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 2105.5 of the Elections Code is amended to
read:
   2105.5.  (a) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
shall do one of the following:
   (1) Establish and maintain on the department's Internet Web site a
hyperlink to the Internet Web site at which the Secretary of State's
voting rights guide for incarcerated persons may be found.
   (2) Post, in each parole office where parolees are seen, a notice
that contains the Internet Web site address at which the Secretary of
State's voting rights guide for incarcerated persons may be found.
   (b) Each county probation department shall do one of the
following:
   (1) Establish and maintain on the county probation department's
Internet Web site a hyperlink to the Internet Web site at which the
Secretary of State's voting rights guide for incarcerated persons may
be found.
   (2) Post, in each probation office where probationers are seen, a
notice that contains the Internet Web site address at which the
Secretary of State's voting rights guide for incarcerated persons may
be found.